Re: PR1ME C compiler sources

"Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:53:20 +0100

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From: "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:53:20 +0100
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John,


> [The Prime machines suffered from having too many versions of
> everything. Page 41 of that quick reference card has a 48 bit pointer
> format with a bit number in the low 16 bits. It seems unlikely that a
> C compiler would use that as a general pointer format since it doesn't
> fit in any sort of normal int, and it's not what you'd want to point
> at an int or a function or anything bigger than a char. -John]


Some Cray machines and DSP chips have a similar problem with using
word addressing.


Several solve the problem by defining the word to be the smallest
addressable unit, making chars 48-bits in the case of some DSPs.


There seems to be a general dearth of PR1ME C compiler reference
manuals (which wold contain the details).


--
Derek M. Jones
blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com
[C had issues on any word addressed machine. Some of the hacks people
tried on the PDP-10 were pretty ugly, too. -John]

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